Tehran, YJC. Nobakht has stated that in less than one year, the Rouhani administration has cut down inflation for about 11 percent.

Mohammad
Baqer Nobakht who was speaking on the occasion of the Islamic Republic day (April
2) in Mecca said "The day I arrived in Mecca the head of the Statistics
Center called me and said that fortunately the 43-percent inflation of
August-September 2013 has reduced to 32.1.

The
president's Vice Chancellor in Planning and Strategic Supervision said "While
as an oil power the Islamic Republic is able to produce 4 million barrels a
day, sanctions made us have to sell only one million."

Also
pointing to the country's nuclear program he said "In the first round we
managed to break down part of the sanctions, but there remains a lot to go until
the end of the negotiations."

"The
nuclear issue is only an excuse for the superpowers. They have introduced Islam
as the religion by which they fasten bombs to themselves and blow it up among
crowds, that it wants to get at the nuclear energy in order to make nuclear
bombs," Nobakht asserted.

The
government Spokesman added "We have told the world that the Islamic
Republic is not seeking nuclear bombs. We want to use nuclear achievements only
for technological advancement."